He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.
It's a vast and sprawling crowd that comes together to watch the Dodgers-Giants 1951 National League Final, and when Bobby Thomson hits the Shot Heard Round the World and wins the pennant race for the Giants, ripples are formed in the heavy undercurrent of time. Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet, another historic shot is fired: the USSR's second atomic detonation. And so Underworld follows the threads that link a symphonic cast of characters: men and women, together and apart, whose search for meaning, survival and connection will spill out over decades.
Don DeLillo is the acclaimed author of fifteen novels, including Underworld, White Noise and Libra, and five plays. He has won the National Book Award, the Jerusalem Prize and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize.
ISBN:
9781447289395
Binding:
Paperback
Pub. Date:
01/09/2015
Category:
Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Imprint:
Picador
Pages:
832 page/s
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Price:
$29.99 AUD